Fastener for waists or other garments.



No. 886,213 I PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906. E. E. RAYMAN. FASTBNER FOR WAISTS OR OTHER GARMBNTS.

APPLICATION FILED J'AN.5.1906.

W/TNESSES 114mm 1; W i/WENTUR ELMER E. RAYMAN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

FASTENER FOR WAISTS OR OTHER GARMENTS Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov 20, 1906.

Application filed January 5, 1906. Serial No 294,743.

To all whom it may concern: 5

Be it known that I, ELMER E. RAYMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1 Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Waists or other Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for fastening garments, and more particularly the shirt-waists usually worn by boys; and the invention has particular relation to fastening hooks and eyes for use with the waist band tapes of webbing or elastic which are carried in a fold or hem on the bottom of the waist or in a fold or hem at the top of other garments, as pajamas, drawers, &c. Garments such as these demand that they shall fit snugly around the waist. This is particularly the case in blouses such as those usually worn by boys, which need to be fairly j tight at the waist, but have a fullness immediately above. l

Heretofore garments fastened by a tape, i such as boys blouses, have had this tape carried in a turned-over portion or hem, the ends of the tape projecting out in front, where they are tied after the garment is put on. j This knot is either likely to come untied or to become knotted into such a hard knot which has to be out before the garment can be taken off or put on. Another objection to this tape is that it is constantly loosening and having to be retied. It is very liable to slip out of the hem or waistband and has to be rethreaded therein. Further, such tape is untidy, as the ends if untied are likely to hang down in front.

To obviate these inconveniences and to provide a neat, simple, cheap, and easilyoperated fastener and to provide means for holding the waist always closed is the object of my invention, which consists in the dc tailed shape and arrangements of the parts, as will be hereinafter set forth in the claims.

I have illustrated certain embodiments of my invention in the accompanying drawings, Wherein- Figure 1 is a general front view of a blouse provided with an elastic band and the fasten- 1 ing device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail front view of the elastic band and the fastener, the l two members being separated. Fig. 3 is a l front view showing the members interhooked. i

Fig. l is an upper edge view. Fig. 5 is a detail to show a modification in the construc tion. Fig. 6 is a perspective showing the hook made of wire.

Iiike numerals in all the figures designate like parts.

2 designates a waist or blouse such as usually worn by young children, having at the waist thereof a turned-back fold or hem 3, through which a band 4 of elastic material is preferably threaded. If this waistband is of elastic, it is made slightly shorter than the length around the waist, so as to hold the blouse or other garments gathered in. At its ends the elastic tape is attached to two members 5 and 6 of the fastener. The fastener is of the hook-and-eye form, the member 5 having a main hook 5 and the member 6 having the eye 6, which engages therewith. It is understood that any form of hook and eye may be used.

In order to prevent the withdrawing of the tape up into the hem or fold 3, I provide each member of the fastener with an auxiliary hook 7 7, either on its rear face, as shown in the case of member 5, or on its front face, as shown on member 6, it being best, however, that this should be on the rear of member 5 in any case, so as not to interfere with the main hook 5 and so that there will be no projection to catch upon the outer garments.

It is to be understood, however, that while I have shown the hooks as exposed the cloth of the blouse or other garment will ordinarily cover and conceal the fastener in the manner well known to garment-makers.

In Figs. 2 and 3 I have shown the fasteners as being made of sheet metal, having eyes 5 6 for the passage of the ends of the tape.

At its other end the member 5 is bent back to Theend of the member for the reception form the hook 5 6 is slotted to form an eye 6 of the hook 5.

In Figs. 2, 3, and 4 the auxiliary hooks are attached to the sheet metal as separate pieces. In Fig. 5 the auxiliary hook is stamped up out of the metal of the fastener. In Fig. 6 the fastener members are shown as being formed of wire.

It is to be understood that any construction of hook may be used, my invention residing not so much in the particular method. by which the members are made as in the auxiliary hooks which prevent the tape from understood that I claim is adapted to engage with the hem or tape-fold being drawn back into the hem orwaist-fold I when the fasteners are unclasped from each other and in the combination with such hooks of an elastic waistband.

The advantages of my invention are many. l Hereto'fore when elastic has been used as a l waistband this had to be a continuous piece I entirely encircling the waist. This need not be the case where my fasteners are used. Again, Without my special form of fasteners the elastic would pull up into the waist-fold j whenever the hooks were unhooked from each other. Over tape, elastic and my fasteners have many advantagesas, for instance, that of keeping the blouse always snug about the waist, yielding perfectly to the motions of the body, requiringno time, and being always neat and trim.

I design that these fasteners shall either be sold separately or attached to an elastic or tape waistband ready for insertion into the garment. It is obvious also that the fastener members can be attached each to separate pieces of elastic or tape, each sewed upon the garment instead of to the ends of a continuous piece of elastic or tape. It is obvious that my device may be used wherever an elastic or tape band is carried in a fold or hem of a garment or other article.

While I believe that elastic is the best material of which to form the tape, yet it is to be may use a non-elastic tape, if I desire.

Having described my invention, what I 1. As an article of manufacture, a garmentfastener having two interengaging members, means for attaching said members to a Waistband, and a turned-back hook portion on each member projecting rearwardly and of a garment to prevent the passage of said clasp member into said hem, substantially as described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a garmentfastener having two interengaging members, means for attaching said members to a waistband, and hooks on each member springing from the forward end thereof adjacent to the point of engagement of said members and projecting rearwardly to engage with the hem or tape-fold of a garment and prevent the passage of said clasp member into said hem, substantially as described.

3. As an article of manufacture, a garmentfastener comprising two members, one provided with an eye and the other with a hook for engaging said eye, each of said members having a rearwardly-projecting hook adapted to engage with the hem or, tape-fold of a garment and each having means whereby it may be attached to a band of suitable material, substantially as described.

4. As an article of manufacture, a Waist or other band for garments consisting of an elastic strip adapted for insertion into and to proj ect on both ends from a hem or tape-fold of a garment, said strip having attached to the ends thereof interengaging fastener members, eachprovided with a rearwardly-extending hook portion and adapted to engage with the hem or tape-fold of agarment, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 29th day of December, 1905. I

ELMER E. RAYM AN.

Witnesses:

GRAoE M. RAYMAN, IRVING E. HERSHEY. 

